Hmm. That man was a Frennel family member, wasn't he?
Do you know?
That's right, one of the five warrior families of Xenoas, the Frennels of the Shield are famous.

　That's what Lamia's sisters, Mullet and Charette, said as they put away the drawings in a room at the castle. The girls worked under Naito's old man, the head of the agriculture, forestry and construction agency. They were mainly responsible for organizing town allocations, building applications and procedural documents.
　On the way back from coming to see old man Naito, I happened to see the two of them and asked them about Spica-san, who I was a bit curious about. It's the same demon race.
　I tried not to pry into the matter as much as possible, but I was curious as to why he left the country, despite having so much ability and family history.

It's a good idea to have a good idea of what you're looking for when you're in the market. It's only a rumor...
'So maybe Mr. Spica was one of the royal guards?
Hmm, I don't know. It's a very good idea to have a good idea of what you're looking for. I think there was no female member of the Xenoas royal family right now.

　Hmmm," he crosses his arms as Mullet thinks about it, and pitter-patters the floor with the snake's tail.
　Huh? Is this guy Mullet? Charette, right? These two look so much alike that it's hard to tell them apart.
　Even if they are the same twins, Else and Linse are not like that. When I said that before, they said to me, "The scales are totally different. I don't understand, usually.

"No women ... and the queen?
As I recall, both the first and second queen died of illness. Each of them had a prince and a princess, but none of them died.

　I see. And if you're going to escort a woman, it's obviously better to be a woman. In that case, Spica-san wasn't a bodyguard, was she? Well, as for the "family name that fell to the ground"...

'What's happened to the Frennel family lately?'
"'Come on. We've been out of Xenophobia for a long time.

　Hmm. So, in the end, you don't know anything. Well, I feel like it's an invasion of privacy to dig into the roots and find out what's going on.
　When I left the Lamia sisters and went to the training grounds, I found that Spica-san had just finished her training and was wiping her sweat on a bench.

'Hey,'
Oh, hello, Your Majesty. How may I help you?

　He leaves the bench and gets down on one knee and bows his head. I'm not very good with people who are military-like like this guy. I'll ask him to stand up for now.

How do you like it? What's the trouble?
I'm a newcomer to the game, but everyone is very kind to me. I'm grateful that they don't make a distinction between demons and women and so on.

　Compared to other knightly orders, our ratio of women is certainly higher. And also the number of sub-humans. Well, not all of them like Miss Mid.

''Even so, this country's knights have a high standard of strength. I'm surprised.''

　Well, I'm squirreled away so much. The Spartan way. It's a lie if they don't get stronger with that.

"Especially with the strength of the Double Edged Master...

　I don't know what I remembered, but the light disappeared from Spica-san's eyes.

''Ah..... We already had it out.''
''All the confidence I've had in myself has fallen away........ This is the first time that my 'shield' has been of no use to me........ Even though it's a shield I'm not used to using........

　That guy is substandard in many ways and I think we should forget about him. Based on that thing, humans have to keep challenging the walls that are insurmountable.
　Well, Sakura said that there's a shield dedicated to the Frennel family. What does it look like?

''It's a dome-shaped shield with a loose curve. It has a prong in the center for stabbing...
"Hmm.

　I took the crystal material out of storage and deformed it with modeling. I guess it's something like this.
　Surprised by the 'modeling', Spica-san takes the shield in her hand and strokes the surface.

'Can you make the curve here a little more gentle? Also, I'd like to reduce the overall size a bit more...
Huh?

　I transform it as I'm told. I gave the crystal shield that had been transformed a light weight with Gravity and various other things, and that was it.
　Spica-san took the finished shield in her hand, and after patting it briefly, she tried various movements, such as holding and swinging it around.

'It's good that it's so transparent that it doesn't block your view even behind the shield. And it's incredibly light. It's a wonderful shield.
That's not all. Most swords can't cause a single scratch, and even magical attacks have a grant that allows them to bounce back and absorb to some extent.

　I hadn't yet provided Spica-san with the other crystal sword, armor, and a set of equipment for the knights, so I handed it to her here and now. The sword and armor are the same as everyone else's.

''If only I had this kind of armor... at that time...''

　My ears didn't miss her mumbled words, but I didn't dare to mention them.

'Master,'

　A voice called out from behind me. I turned around and saw Sheska standing there in her maid outfit.

'I have a message from Rosetta. She said that she has completed that thing.'
Well, you're early.

　I thought it would take a little longer. Okay, so let's call it an unveiling at the afternoon meeting.
　I left Spica-san and headed to Babylon with Sheska.




''Fuyu-dono. Is this the magic tool 《Artifact》 that can predict the appearance of Frase?
Yes, sir. I called it the sensing plate.

　As its name suggests, it is a black tablet in the shape of a black plate.
　When it detects the sound of a flayze, it displays its direction, distance, estimated time of appearance, individual type, and number of flayze appearances.
　However, the measurement range is not very wide, and although one is not a problem for Brunhild alone, even our next smallest Linie, let alone large countries like Belfast, Regulus, and Restia, would need more than one.

''I would like to have the adventurers' guilds in each country set this up, and if it is only a lower-grade species, I will ask the adventurers to deal with it as a request from the guilds, and if it includes an intermediate species, I will raise that country with frame gear to deal with it, and if it includes a higher-grade species, the entire East-West Alliance will take care of it. Of course, if there are too many of them, this is not the case.
''It's not a problem for the guild. We just don't want them to suffer unpredictably like they did with Euron.

　Joining the representatives of each country, Guild Master Relisha-san, who was sitting at the round table, opened his mouth.
　The reason I asked the guild to help me is that they have bases in various lands, even inside countries that are not in the East-West Alliance. That and the certainty of our contact network.
　Of course, if the appearance of the Fraze is predicted to occur in a country that is not in the alliance, I'll tell them what's going on and ask them to take action. Whether they believe me or not is another matter. Well, even if they don't believe me, they'll have no choice but to believe me once Fraise appears.

''Hmm. With this, even if there's a Freys attack, we'll be able to handle it domestically to some extent.
"And the piece of Frayze - "crystal wood"? And depending on how you use it, it could be used for a number of things.

　The Emperor of Regulus and the Beast King of Mismid exchanged such a conversation. Naturally, the properties of the 'Crystal Wood' were being passed down the tubes to each country. Well, if you look at the equipment and frame gear weapons of Frase and my knights, you can guess it.
　Until now, most of the "crystal materials" that I defeated with my frame gear were given to me, but from now on, when I defeated them in my own country, 80% of them belonged to that country, and the remaining 20% was given to me as rental money for my frame gear. Of course, if you defeat them without any frame gear, you will not receive any money from me.
　The characteristics of the "Crystal Wood" are...

Pouring your magic into it will make it harder.
It will regenerate itself until the magic it has been poured into is exhausted.
"As a catalyst, it amplifies the power of magic.

　The power of the last magic is amplified the same as the magic stone, but because the conduction rate of magic power is different, the crystal material is more powerful.
　The problem is the weight and processing techniques, and if you can't reduce the weight with "gravity" or perform complex transformations with "modeling" like I did, it's difficult to use it for armor and swords.
　When it comes to machining, there's no problem cutting it out, but you can't join it together. Well, it seems like you can put a lot of magic power into raising the hardness of the material and making it thin and scaled to make a skeleton or something.
　But the most troublesome part is the injection of magic power, Lean says that the more you pour into it, the harder it gets, but the resistance value of the magic power also goes up, so it's harder and harder to inject.
　I wonder if it's like leveling up in an RPG or something. The higher the level, the more experience you need, something like that.
　By the way, I've never felt any magic resistance or anything like that. It's usually injected easily and easily. I don't know because I've never injected it to the limit. I don't feel like it will crack if you put too much into it.

''Well then, today's meeting is now........
Excuse me, sir, I have an announcement to make.

　Audrey, the new Governor of all the Rhodomea states, raises her hand, interrupting my words as I was about to close. What is it?

I thought you should know. In the recent incidents of armed golems running amok in our country, Edgar Bowman, who was in charge of all research and cultivation of these golems, has escaped from the mining camp.

　Huh? Did that young bald man escape?

He may have gotten in touch with someone on the outside, and we have no idea where he is. It's possible he's fled the country. I thought you'd want to know.

　So that means someone let that young bald guy go. Who in the world........ Even so, he was called a genius magician, so it's not surprising that someone would think of using his power...

''Search. Edgar Bowman, Bachelor of Magical Engineering.

　A map appeared in the air, but the pin didn't fall there.

'End of search. Applicable.

　Nuh.

'Already dead...?'
''If it's a corpse that can't be identified as an individual. Either that or they've escaped to a place where a magical barrier has been put up, or they have a tool that can be put up...

　As I replied to the new Jeonju Governor, I couldn't suppress another bad feeling. It's not something that comes from fear or anxiety. It's just a troublesome feeling that things are about to get more troublesome.
　My dead grandfather used to say that there is nothing more troublesome than a half-witty idiot.
　I think so too.